Robert Kahn reports: A woman claims in court that a doctor who treated her for drug addiction invaded her privacy by using “her most private, embarrassing, and traumatizing memories in order to surreptitiously obtain material for the book … ‘The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year.’” Gabrielle Lisnoff sued Dr. Michael Stein in Federal…
Author: Dissent
Follow-up: Two men who stole bank info from Michaels customers headed to federal prison
Kristin J. Bender reports: Two men could spend the rest of their lives in federal prison after they pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping set up phony debit card pads in a popular craft store to steal customers’ bank account and credit card numbers. Edward Arakelyan, 21, and Arman Vardanyan, 22, both of Southern California, each…
MI: Wayne County sends out email blast containing some 1300 names and social security numbers
Michael Rosenfield reports on yet another e-mail attachment error (there seems to have been a bunch of them recently): The personal information of some 1300 Wayne County employees is compromised after an email mistake by the county’s Department of Personnel/Human Resources. A spreadsheet containing the data was mistakenly attached to an email about health insurance….
TX: Credit card fraudster gets 70 months
Lynn Brezosky reports: A Corpus Christi man who admitted to making fake credit cards using [credit card] receipts stolen from a San Antonio hotel has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Steven Reese Clark, 37, also must pay $3,606 in restitution to victims of his fraud….
Blood and urine samples found near busy downtown St. John’s street
Improper disposal of medical waste can pose health risks. It can also breach privacy, as the Canadian Press reports: Eastern Health is investigating how the waste — which consisted of three urine samples and eight vials of blood with patient names on them — ended up near a provincial government building along Prince Philip Drive…
Update: Computer seized over Belfast City Hall breach (updated)
Give ’em back their data – that you didn’t ask for but they sent you anyway – or they’ll seize it from you? A computer has been seized from a woman who received personal details of every Belfast city councillor in a major security breach, it has been revealed. Heather M Brown surrendered the computer…